"Support for password authentication was removed" error

[john-science]

I am getting the error Support for password authentication was removed error. But I am using a token, and have cranked it up to have fully permissions.

I am trying to use GH Actions to auto-gen my docs in (this repo), then PR them to the documentation website repo here.

The relevant portion of my YAML:

      - name: deploy
        uses: JamesIves/[email protected]
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          repository-name: john-science/terrapower.github.io
          commit-message: "${{ github.repository }}@${{ github.sha }}"
          branch: master
          folder: doc/_build/html
          target-folder: armi

My full error log is here, but in short the error I get:

/usr/bin/git push --force ***github.com/john-science/terrapower.github.io.git github-pages-deploy-action/qzoaqahrc:master
remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ for more information.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/john-science/terrapower.github.io.git/'

Any help would be appreciated. I must have a hole in my understanding, because I don't grok the error message at all.

[john-science]

The issue appears to be a bad/faulty/misleading error message in the GitHub token API.

Explanation here: #859

[TheArrowsmith]

If anyone else is coming here from Google... I got this same error message while trying to get started with a similar action, https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-gh-pages

My problem was that I'd written this in my workflow config file:

      github_token: ${secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}

But it actually needed to use double braces {{/}}, not single {/}:

      github_token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

As @john-science noted above, the error message from GitHub is very misleading.